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The FirstRain office has had a full house this week with members from our East Coast sales team in town for our quarterly sales kick-off. And last night, in the spirit of fun, culture and generally getting over ourselves, the entire sales team and most of the company, headed down south to Cupertino for the final Splash and Dash race of the summer.  The race consisted of a one-mile swim in the Stevens Creek Reservoir, followed by a three-mile run.  We are lucky to have 13 great (or at least enthusiastic!) athletes that competed in relays – so we had 6.5 teams in the competition. The less brave joined the superb cheerleading team led by Julie and her cowbell.

Splash and Dash race @ Stevens Creek Reservoir

Aaron and Ryan finished first for the team, crediting their win to the support from our star, 5-year old cheerleader Natalie.  Natalie earned her prize, keeping the shiny blue pom-poms that she used to cheer on each rainmaker.

Natalie– our star cheerleader

After the race, everyone plus families and friends and headed back to my house for a team cookout – where Thomas, Carolyn and Doug dueled over the grill (I was happy to hand off the tongs, so to speak). It was a beautiful night out, with great food and terrific company.  We finished the night by celebrating Rajiv’s birthday (he is visiting us from our Gurgaon office) using our best singing voices to serenade him (in and out of tune!).

all of our FirstRain racers (minus Eugene)

The Splash and Dash race has proven to be a great team building event for FirstRain and I’m very proud of my team.  The encouragement and support they show one another builds the kind of relationships that make a company great.  Their ability to congratulate each other for a job well done, to help each other, to care about each other independent of their work roles is part of what makes FirstRain such a fun place to be.

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